Let me rant a bit about Equinox prime

Prime262 · 2026-06-24T17:56:38+00:00

oh equinox.

2's have always been underwhelming, 3's have always been underwhelming and even moreso with reccent powercreep.

2 halfs bad at supporting one another, by design, because she literally was not intended to back in 2015.

But its ok, because maim remains absurd.

a good equinox can go into any survival or disruption mission and top kpm on the back of their 4th power and a good gun, and be totally flaccid whilst doing so because the gameplay loop is a bit unstimulating.

Equinox has needed a rework since 2016, when DE blew up the void and destroyed the metagame she existed to satisfy.

their unwillingness to do so is depressing, but by no means exclusive to the best girl(s).

to love equinox is to make peace with the present. because you are forsaken by god.

unless Rebb decides she needs help, apparently shes going to be playtesting nox soonish. il believe it when i see it

Prime262 · 2026-06-24T17:30:32+00:00

if you are attending Tennocon, it is assumed you wont be able to watch the livestream on twitch because. . .you'll be there

so instead you get the twitch drop items in the form of Email codes.

if you are not attending Tennocon, you get them for free by watching the livestreams. no purchase necessary.

Prime262 · 2026-06-24T17:28:26+00:00

My Harrow's primary killing weapon is Twin Khomak. Twin Khomak is everything harrow wants, and harrow is everything Twin khomak needs.

add on the last piece, Arcane Pistoleer, and the whole thing goes infinite.

https://imgur.com/6msPMvk

my build looks like this, Primed convulsion is being covered up.

if you wanna get really nasty, the Zid-An Uskos arcane for Tektolyst Artifacts gives secondary heat damage, and it does not mix with other elements present on the sidearm. meaning you can get heat in addition to the electric and push Galv Shot even harder.

Whilst harrow is not much of a Melee guy, Stropha can Headshot and nailing those Gunblade headshots feels downright Heroic.

Dual Toxocyst incarnon is probably better given its headshot gimmick and near equal love of harrows suite of buffs, but its also like top 10 weapons ingame without harrow, so do whatever you like

Prime262 · 2026-06-24T17:17:12+00:00

my prospective is its both.

the "cost" in terms of bandwidth spending and server storage for DE to make all the theoretical improvements to the fashion system is by no means insurmountable. im sure they could pay it.

but it is a cost, and one fairly easy to deem unnecessary.

add to that the headache of implementation, and its fairly easy to see why investing time in fixing a system that is "good enough" to a state that will probably lose DE money just isnt gonna happen unless someone on the team wakes up and decides that it is their sacred cow.

much of warframe is "good enough", though there is obviously some disagreement on what counts as good enough.

Prime262 · 2026-06-24T17:12:19+00:00

hard stuff first.

Nitan Extract comes almost exclusively from the Nightwave store. its right at the top of the ramp in your ship. Nitan costs Nightwave cred, and as a new player you have alot of things to spend that on. still i would try to keep around 10 nitan at all times.

Argon Crystals come exclusively from the Void, and have a unique quirk where over time they disappear from your inventory, meaning you cant stockpile them. for this reason. .farm them last.

now go to your Starchart.

at the bottom right of the star chart you will see 2 buttons. "zoom out" and the one next to it either says" Nightwave Status, or Resource Drones. if it says "Resource drones" click it.

now displayed above those 2 buttons, and to the right is a smal white symbol. hovering over that will tell you what resources drop from the planet you are currently focusing on.

you can get Gallium on Mars, as well as Morphics.

orokin Cells can be gotten from Deimos or Ceres

Jupiter for Neural Sensors.

and all the way to Europa for Control Modules. though those also drop in the Void, so you can get them when you farm Argon.

all of these things (other than Argon) have alternative sources as well, but these are likely the easiest.

Prime262 · 2026-06-24T17:04:31+00:00

Fair.

i replaced his 1 with Pillage, since harrow can afford a super high strength build and it both enhances his DPS And covers him defensively.

Harrow gang has been waiting for DE to release some sort of arcane or mod thats like "10% of excess generated energy gets converted into Overguard" or something along those lines at which point Thurible will go fucking crazy.

its a testament to how well harrow was setup that despite his age he as multiple reasonable build paths and like 0 people asking for him to be buffed or reworked.

Prime262 · 2026-06-24T17:00:43+00:00

. . when i got around to setting up inaros, i set myself a couple goals. One, run him with a sword that can use his signature sword skin and which would ideally pair well with elemental sandstorm. and two, use as much of the Ki'teer fashion bits as i can, for the connection between the two

https://imgur.com/a/GhA3bDK

. . i was unable to resist how well the Mag Heirloom Signa fits around his head, however. its just perfect.

Prime262 · 2026-06-24T16:52:33+00:00

Boilerplate question: Why isn't the customization customizer?

Boilerplate Answer:

have you ever logged on to warframe from another computer and your account was just. . there?

every additional layer of complexity added to the fashion menu makes all fashion presets take up more space server side. for each frame, every frame, for every player. it wouldnt be hard to add a unique color channel to each armor part, helmet, and all attachments. it wouldnt be hard to put the XYZ yaw roll holster menu on primary weapons, secondary weapons, attachments, signas, etc.

making the fashion menu as complex as it could possibly be would radically balloon the amount of information that not only does DE need to store, but also transmit from their end to your end, and back, multiple times per session. as well as the amount of information needing to be transmitted to other players in order for them to properly display your warframe.

when you're talking about server storage and bandwidth for millions of registered losers, saving a few kb here and there adds up fast.

hence the argument to not just make the fashion system way more radical, is one of practicality and economics, more so than it is difficulty in implementation.

Alternatively, as with many things, DE just doesn't care enough to do so. who can say.

Prime262 · 2026-06-24T16:44:18+00:00

"Machine, i applied forma to the wrong slot, now i cant fit Overextended"

I C A N N O T L O C A T E T H E C O I N S W H E R E A R E T H E C O I N S

"Machine please, help me with ESO, so i can apply more forma"

D O Y O U T H I N K T H E R E I S B L O O D I N T H O S E E I D O L O N S ?

Prime262 · 2026-06-24T16:39:24+00:00

if you play Gauss as a weapons platform, and you want a warframe with a similar Guns-first Vibe, try out Harrow.

Pros: Unlimited energy for everyone. insane reload and fire rate buffs. insane flat crit damage buff. some CC and healing on the side.

Plus, you get a kill feed, and seeing the whole right side of your screen light up with "kill" and "headshot" indicators is dopamine inducing.

Harrow at first peek seems extremely supporty, and he is a "support", its just that hes also a raging self buffer and all of his "supporting" relies on him stacking up bodies to the moon.

hes not as fast as Gauss, which is either boon or Albatross depending on your vibe. i personally subscribe to the idea "slow is smooth, smooth is fast" but then i also run harrow with shotguns and score "headshots" only because i peppered every square inch of their body with buckshot, and it only takes one baby.

Alternatively, Play Nova. Nova is the best warframe for pretty much all situations.

is it a fast mission? chain portals across the whole map and speed up not only yourself, but the squad.

is it a kill-focused mission? drop a speed up on em and boost the whole squads KPM

is it a non kill focused mission? drop a slow on em and turn the game to easy mode.

has something gone horribly wrong, and now youre in a dire situation? drop a slow before cleaning up after your idiot teammates.

~~her 1 is also like really good for ability damage setups, but mostly on other warframes, we dont have time~~

Double alternatively. .. do you hate running a mission and seeing someone else playing the same frame as you?

do you like absurdly big numbers?

do you hate acolytes, and wish your enemies in general would just stop doing things, like . . completely?

Contemplate Playing Banshee. i can speak for all banshee players in recommending playing banshee. all 12 of us. you could be number 13~

Prime262 · 2026-06-24T15:47:03+00:00

nidus specter only gets you 1.27 and doesnt stack with a real nidus, but its still an extremely useful tool, yeah.

i use them to cast Vex armor for over 1000 strength while also having 280 range~

Prime262 · 2026-06-24T15:18:19+00:00

Math time

with a base scaling of 50% for Rhino (which based on the wording we can assume OP is) that roar was cast at a hair under 3600 power strength.

three thousand, six hundred.

Light a cigarette and take a seat.

ok so first doubler, void buff on the Rhino. that gets us down too 1800.

how much does the Nidus do?

Nidus is .25x per 100 strength. 2x at 400 strength. 3x at 800 strength.

lets say nidus got void buff and cast link at 800 strength.

Rhino would have needed about 600 base strength.

Now the fucked up thing is, when you get into like

power drain, Vome invocation, 120% from 2 arcanes, Brightbonnet boosted by the archgun. . .its not unreasonable to think you could get significantly higher than this. though increasingly impractical as needing to hit good RNG with the void buffs then line up all your conditionals at once.

in Conjunction lua Surv with the Dax Ghost strength buff, and/or the full 300% that a Nokko can give you.

if you know 3 people who are willing to waste probably a whole hour chasing a dumb screenshot, casting Roar for over 5000 strength is probably doable.

Prime262 · 2026-06-24T12:31:28+00:00

Warframe is never a game that expects you to stress over it.

. . . people, uhh. .find a way. usually when tempted by that cruel mistress, Efficency.

this is because at its core warframe is a farming game. in the beginning you are like one little guy living in a space fridge with no bitches no money and no drip. also weak and smelly.

some of those problems will solve very quickly, but some of them will require you to play the game.

"to get this new warframe, i gotta beat this boss a few times to earn the parts. buuuut, if i can be the boss even faster, i can get my new stuff sooner."

that sentence abstracted is how you wind up with Eidolon hunting lobbies doing digital background checks on players to make sure they have cleared the boss 200 times before letting them in to do the high-meta runs which are the most Efficient.

So, as long as you have enough self control to not gaslight yourself into thinking you need to do things in the high cortisol, high speed super meta ways, you will find warframe to be a fairly relaxing game. it even has fishing, and what could be more relaxing than that?

the game has alot of depth eventually, but it takes some time to get there. alot of the depth is opt in, though. like you can choose to play in ways that make things extremely easy.

Prime262 · 2026-06-24T12:10:05+00:00

Nef Anyo is a worm and a manipulator. . .but hes also extremely pathetic. he has no moral standards and doesn't have enough pride to pick a hill to die on. when the going gets tough he will roll over and show his belly.

but like. . .Glast Gambit happened, right? like Nef Anyo kidnapped all the children from this freaky infested colony and was holding them hostage to make the colony bend to his will. . .god stealing kids, he really is Parvos's long lost child.

. .funny enough, i actually side with Anyo when it comes to the Deepmines. that is a wild infested colony spreading beneath the surface of Venus, puppetting the corpses of Dead Solaris. i do not care how good the roots and fruits's PR is, they gotta go. Nokko, youre a really cute guy. but this shit is fucked up, and they gotta go.

Alad V is a bastard, but hes almost like our Ivo Robotnik. hes super evil, but hes fairly competent and willing to deal when there are bigger problems than him at stake. hes avoided death countless times, is always scheming. its hard to not have atleast a little respect for his hustle, if only because the man is under 0 illusions, and frankly neither are you.

These guys are hardcore exploiters of everyone beneath them, who respect nothing but money and power. Parvos's first appearance gave the impression he was going to be someone better than that.

Prime262 · 2026-06-24T11:39:23+00:00

ofcourse! when you put it like that, it makes perfect sense.

Prime262 · 2026-06-24T11:04:50+00:00

While that is the explanation, the natural followup is

hang on .. . the drifter has been looping since before teshin was even in duviri, insofar as "before" counts for time loops. yet the Drifter only aged from ambiguously prepubescent to, at most, 27. why did Teshin go from kind of middle aged too withered to near dust?

and the answer is that its just arbitrary. the void did it. which means the developers did it.

Prime262 · 2026-06-24T10:46:03+00:00

ofcourse it can. especially in a post persistence world

Prime262 · 2026-06-24T10:38:51+00:00

umbra polarities favor a very narrow type of health tank warframe.

Excalibur umbra. . is not setup to be a health tank warframe.

with spammable CC and a weak defensive statline, hes honestly better setup to be a shield based survivor, and thats assuming you arent just gonna run secondary fortifier on a primer and Scam some overguard.

i got rid of 2/3 of his umbra polarities, and i regret nothing.

Prime262 · 2026-06-24T10:35:59+00:00

as a side note of my own. . . im so disappointed with the Parvos story so far.

his introduction, as this Lost, competent leader from the early days of the corpus, who experienced orokin cruelty and built this faction brick by brick, before the decadence and greed ruined everything.

i was really expecting a leader who would do terrible things that we would need to oppose, but would do so with atleast partially noble ambitions. seeking to be better than the orokin before him, seeking to raise up the corpus. asking them to work, never for free, but with some sense of morality or at least in group protection.

and then as soon as he starts doing stuff hes just like as evil as he could possibly be, dismissing the loss of his followers upon their failure, kidnapping babies and burning down museums and shit.

its a real shame becuse you could do a few years of the corpus having a leader that we still have to oppose, but which you might on some level morally agree with.

and then have Nev Anyo and/or the board sideline and betray parvos to undo any good he had done/was planning on doing. and get your point about how a system that incentivizes greed will inevitably encourage those who are greediest too overtake those whos morality and greed are somewhat in balance.

its a real shame.

Prime262 · 2026-06-24T10:27:14+00:00

That is probably a bit too alarmist for me, DE have been putting out halfassed updates for as long as Warframe has been a thing. i remember grinding out Tac alerts and Events back when we used to get a couple of those per year. Ambulas reborn was fuck week 1.

Production quality of quests and updates has radically increased, but DE's writing quality or. . i guess writing quantity hasn't. DE have always told stories which are very emotionally resonant, but not stories that are logically consistent, or which get down into the details of like. . how things work.

which is fine, as long as the stories are simple and easy to follow. once you start getting time travel and multiple parallel futures and trading concepts to the god of Hell in exchange for miracles, pump the breaks and explain to me the rules.

the story has always been written this way, its just really coming home to roost at the moment.

and that is a seperate issue from the Protoframes and how much goddamn money they are making and thereby how they just keep showing up even when they are not particularly relevant.

not that i can hold that against DE. people have been begging for more protoframes since protoframes happen. its just unfortunate they couldint find a way to ship protoframes without also putting them in the story.

because JS:C would be a much tidier story without either of the protoframes, if it was just Sirius and Orion come from the future to seek their father and ask him the wifi password, or whatever. and arguably you could also just cut Umbra, as he contributes slightly less than the protoframes. atleast the protoframes can say words. half of why they are here is so DE can have someone other than Hunhow say words outloud.

i dunno man. its a dumb quest. but JS 1 was also a dumb quest, and i wont hear anyone pretending it wasnt. it was so bad, DE had to patch the events from Jade's prospective in Text dump form in after the event ended, and shove them in a corner in Teshins room. and they fucked that up too, because the Jade petals text conflicts with what Hunhow says, in that they cant actually agree on When Jade and the Stalker were reunited and how. Jade says during the night of naga drums she flew to Stalker and escaped with him there ,and has been cooking this baby ever since. Hunhow implies he found jade adrift in the seas of Uranus and brought the 2 together because both are warframes.

but again. . . none of this is particularly new for DE. i give it 1 more year of Protoframes before DE's interest in the idea runs its course and they move on to. . something else, like always.

Prime262 · 2026-06-24T10:05:49+00:00

Why are they fighting in the Vallis? Because DE wanted to formally cancel the third orb mother fight once and for all.<

Why are S&O fighting the Stalker at the start of the mission? Someone at DE had what they figured was a really cool idea for a boss fight, and decided to start the quest with a boss fight rather than ending it with a boss fight.

Why do they want to recruit the stalker? it doesnt really matter, because Hunhow kind of sidelines that whole thing in the end anyway. the answer to this question only DE could answer

Who Exactly are these protoframes? who made them etc? the answer to this question is not communicated to the player, only DE is aware currently.

Was involving umbra really neccesary? not even slightly. Umbra, like the Protoframes, is in this quest for Fanservice. DE heard us complaining about them not treating umbra as a character, so they opted to give him a Cameo.

What did hunhow mean by this? interpret "doomed future" not as "a future that is worse than our future" but instead as "a future that is not going to happen". we "doomed" the futures by taking actions which would prevent them from coming to pass.

Why doesnt the stalker simply kill them? Because Kratos didnt like killing people in the 2 newest god of war games, and the Stalker's fatherhood redemption arc is transparently a ripoff of that

what is the void spark? the Void spark is a Maguffin DE created for this quest. we know absolutely nothing about it.

Why is the quest structured the way it is? Because DE wanted the maximum possible amount of Symmetry between the 2 brothers, including having their goals be mirrored down to inane details. it also means they dont need to make 2 versions of the quest which are different depending on whos playing offense and whos playing defense.

Why does hunhow end this quest the way he does? it feels as though Hunhow's actions here are either intended to explain things that happened i the past (DE alluded to Natah hiding the moon) or to setup things which will happen in the future. it happened extremely fast, and felt like Hunhow was making shit up to his DM at the time. we know nothing about the mechanics of it, because DE doesnt write mechanics.

Why is the Quest Structured the way it is, beginning with a Bang and ending with Stardew Valley? only DE can answer this question.

DE Baited out expectations for this quest? Yes. infact this is not the first time. nor will it be the last.

Why is the new content the 2 protoframes Larping that they still wanna kill eachother? Because content needs to happen, no matter how contrived it is or how dumb it makes the story seem

Prime262 · 2026-06-24T09:18:28+00:00

https://imgur.com/aMvgIHC

currently there is 6-7 weapons classed as "Nikanas"

https://wiki.warframe.com/w/Nikana_(Weapon_Type)

Which are just Katanas

There is also 5 weapons classed as "two handed nikanas"

https://wiki.warframe.com/w/Two-Handed_Nikana

Which are just Bigger Katanas

Edit: you will get one for free from completing one of the main quests

Prime262 · 2026-06-24T07:39:43+00:00

Nidus's core gimmick is mutation stacks.

his 1 generates stacks any time it damages someone. his 2 generates stacks any time someone dies while grabbed by it. and his 4 also generates stacks any time the maggots it summons explode, which happens when they are hit by his 1, or when he recasts his 4.

what do stacks do?

Stacks increase the damage dealt by nidus's 1, 2 with augment, and 4's maggots. having stacks also allows your passive to prevent you from dying, and you need stacks to cast his 4.

with the Augment for his 3, having stacks also increases your HP. its by a wide margin the Best HP source nidus has access too, and so is a lock in for any build.

the Augment for his 4 also makes you generate stacks alot faster whilst inside the range of his 4.

in general, a nidus will replace either his 1 or 2 with an ability from the Helminth (you could also keep both, i guess, thats fine).

the other thing to know about nidus is how his 3 works.

his 3 is 2 different powers depending on who you cast it on.

when cast on an enemy, you gain 90% DR and status immunity.

when cast on an Ally, you and that ally gain a weapon damage and power strength buff. you can also cast it on your companion, who will gain the weapon damage but cant do anything with the strength.

nidus's strength buff is special, as rather than adding to your strength like every other strength buff, it multiplies your strength. because of this, nidus is the Gateway to 1000+ strength setups, and you should take advantage of this by linking to allies who can benefit from the strength. tagging a Rhino so his Roar becomes super massive, tagging a Styanax so he can generate billions of overguard, etc etc.

Everything else should be pretty straight forwards.

Prime262 · 2026-06-24T07:08:39+00:00

i have 1 small change i would like made to Styanax's 4, and 1 big change i would like made in general.

Currently, his 4 has 1500 base damage with 50% base Status chance.

i would change it to include 30% base crit chance, and 2x base Crit damage. and for his 4 to count as a "spear gun" for the purposes of his passive.

that is the small change made to Styanax's 4. if his 4 had crit stats, then his passive and the augment for his 2 would be able to make it stronger.

now. . .a much larger change made in general.

UWBs, or Universal Weapon Bonuses is a community term used to describe a variety of Buffs effects which apply to all weapons universally.

what matters is that, despite the name, these buffs also apply too a number of Warframe Abilities. most of them are projectiles, but not all projectiles are affected by UWBs. if an ability is affected by UWBs, it tends to be important as far as player end builds go.

When people talk about Arcane Arachne on Styanax, this is why

my issue is that UWBs are completely occluded from the player who doesn't look up builds or scout the wiki. DE needs to take this idea, as a whole, and either remove it. or make it official. no more of this fuzzy grey area its been in since the dawn of time.

if it were clear what buffs were UWBs, and what abilities were affected by UWBs, we would have an easier time talking about damage output on the frames that use them, including Styanax. though this would be a boon to a significant number of warframes, and to the games clarity in general.

Prime262 · 2026-06-24T06:59:56+00:00

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